They call them the new bread earners. They are women, and they are set to take over. Women are beginning to rise【S1】______to

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问题     They call them the new bread earners. They are women, and they are set to take over.
    Women are beginning to rise【S1】______to the top in the workplace all over the developed world.  New figures show that in almost a third of American【S2】______with a working wife,  the woman brings home more money than her husband and that they now occupy half the country’s "high-paying, executive, administrative and【S3】______occupations", compared with 34 per cent 20 years ago.
    The trend is【S4】______by two main factors, experts say--a【S5】______acceptance of men as house-husbands and mass unemployment of male white-collar workers from the technology,  finance and media industries in the last three years.
    The University of Maryland has【S6】______a report that shows women to be the chief earner in 11 per cent of all US marriages.
    Pushing a buggy(婴儿车)on a sunny afternoon in New York’s Central Park last week, Jonathan Blinderman, 33,  said,  he was【S7】______he had been able to see every moment of his daughter Lindsay’s first six months of life while his wife, Sage, was out working.
    It is a sign of these times of【S8】______that when he mentions his status at parties he is either praised as a saint or【S9】______as a slave-cum-freeloader(爱占便宜的奴隶).  For the revolution is nowhere near complete.
    But Maria Cancian, an economist at the University of Wisconsin, said【S10】______women were increasingly looking for househusbands.

A)caused            I)argued
B)proud             J)transition
C)carelessly        K)ambitious
D)mocked            L)tackled
E)produced          M)growing
F)managerial        N)steadily
G)greedy            O)households
H)precaution
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答案A

解析 此处需要一个动词的过去分词,作谓语的一部分。根据其后的“factors(因素)”,可得出答案为caused。 be caused by two main factors意为“由两个主要因素引起”。
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